Archive for June, 2008
Ramon Ray, editor of Smallbiztechnology.com, recently interviewed Mumboe CEO Bill Kane on this topic. Ray, author of Technology Solutions for Growing Businesses (Amacom), posed the following questions. Bill’s answers are summed up here, with links to the article for the full version:
RAY: There’s such an outgrowth of hosted applications for small and larger businesses. Mumboe provides one solution but other companies, such as those providing document sharing can do, to some degree what Mumboe can do. Beyond hosted applications, I think of traditional databases such as File Maker, Access and Alpha Software. These software products can also manage applications. What’s the value add of Mumboe?
BK: “Mumboe is the only company focused on providing enterprise-level contract management functionality in a simple, intuitive and affordable package. While there are many applications, hosted or not, that contain pieces of the functionality that Mumboe offers – such as collaboration tools, document storage and sharing, etc. – Mumboe is 100% focused on managing business agreements.” Read the rest of Bill’s answer here.
RAY: With the huge growth of hosted applications providing a range of solutions, when should businesses consider limiting or critically analyzing their hosted application uses? Is there a stage when they are using so many applications, things get out of control?
BK: “Integration will undoubtedly be one of the key growth drivers for on-demand applications. The issue is already driving major providers such as Salesforce.com, Google, Cisco/WebEx, and Intuit to introduce platform initiatives geared toward integrating other applications. This shift is going to provide enormous advantage for smaller businesses with limited IT resources, because the responsibility now lies with the software provider instead of with the customer to make integration work. Integration is built into the Mumboe application DNA, and over the next few months we expect to announce several integration initiatives with major applications used by businesses to manage relationships with their customers, partners and employees.” Read Bill’s full answer here.
RAY: Are digital signatures a part of Mumboe’s solutions now or in the future?
BK: “There is no question that e-signature applications have received a lot of attention in the media, and these companies have attracted many customers with the simplicity of their idea and affordable pricing model. It is definitely in Mumboe’s plans to add this capability to our application. However, our customers have told us that it is very low on their list of priorities, and many customers have said they would not use it even if they had it, because their own legal process requirements forbid it. In surveys of our customers, they have almost universally prioritized other features.” (Get the list here.)
June 30th, 2008
Author: admin
Wow! There are more than 75 updates, including new features, changes and fixes, in the latest release of the Mumboe application. Unlike traditional, behind-the-firewall software applications that get updated maybe once a year, Mumboe’s on-demand model gives our customers access to the latest features and updates as soon as they become available. Check out some of the latest updates below. For a full list, log in to the Mumboe Customer Forum at support.mumboe.com. Don’t have an account? Sign up for one free with no strings attached at www.mumboe.com.
June 16th, 2008
Author: James
We here at Mumboe have been busy debunking the notion that on-demand applications are not customizable. Not true! Mumboe lets you customize your view and preferences in lots of ways, even letting you add your own custom fields and Agreement types:
New this month, in the My Profile screen, you can set your preference for 12 or 24 hour timestamps, and whether you want dates displayed as “MM/DD/YYY” or “DD-MM-YYY” (for our UK friends):
And, Mumboe always makes sure that once you’ve set your view on a screen (for example, rearranging the Agreement List view), that view will be saved until you change it.
June 16th, 2008
Author: James
We’ve said it before, we’ll say it again and again: we want your feedback! Now we’ve made it even easier for you to give it by adding a new link next to the Advanced Search tab near the main navigation bar. Clicking on that link will take you to a screen where you can submit your questions and comments to the Mumboe support team:
June 16th, 2008
Author: James
Tasks and Events are important features in Mumboe that alert you of key dates and to-do items. Now, in addition to viewing your Tasks and Events for the day, we’ve expanded the Calendar to include weekly and monthly views. To view your Tasks and Events for the week, click on the week number column in the Calendar to the left of the week you wish to view. Need to see further ahead? Click on “Wk.” in the upper-left corner of the Calendar to select the entire month. Mumboe will also save your preferences, so you’ll see the same view the next time you return to the Calendar:
June 16th, 2008
Author: James
This feature request came in recently from a Mumboe customer, now it’s here! To print your Task list in Mumboe, simply click on View Tasks in the Mumboe Dashboard, and you’ll see the Print link in the upper right corner of your screen. You can also export your Task list to a CSV file, which can then be imported in to a spreadsheet:
June 16th, 2008
Author: James
You can add other users to your Mumboe account, share agreements with those users and assign them tasks. You can also edit their permissions and grant access to specific folders.
June 16th, 2008
Author: James
Not only is Mumboe Express free to anyone who cares to try it (the only limits are on storage space and number of users), you don’t even have to talk to anyone to open an account. That means you can give Mumboe a try anytime, and take as much time as you like to poke around in the application. Mumboe’s free account is unlike many other “free” software demos that ask you to give up all of your personal information in order to register, force you talk to a salesperson before you’re granted access, or that only offer a limited time trial. (We do ask for a name and email address so we can give you a unique account and authenticate it ensure the security of your information.)
We want to make doing business with Mumboe easy. Give our product a try. You don’t have to talk to anyone (unless you want to), and you’ll have as much time as you need to kick the tires.
To try it now, click here:
When you do try it, let us know what you think…we are always looking for suggestions.
June 6th, 2008
Author: James
enterprisey [EN-ter-prize-ee] — (adj.): a company, web site or software application that is complex and difficult to understand and/or use. Often used to describe applications marketed in 3-word acronyms and text-heavy web sites that are as much fun to read as, well, a legal document. You know who you are.
Like a lot of technology companies I’ve known, we here at Mumboe often make up our own slang and creative terms to describe a concept when normal English doesn’t quite cut it. At one company I worked at, we even kept track of these terms in an internal glossary for fun. (Ok, yes, that was our idea of fun.)
So here we’d like to occasionally publish some of those terms, and ask you to add yours to the list. I’m not talking about industry buzzwords like “cloud computing” or “SaaS”. I’m talking about the words we spontaneously make up on occasion to describe the cultural oddities, technology quirks and market mysteries that make working in the software industry so interesting.
Have a term you’d like to submit? Post it in a comment here!
June 6th, 2008
Author: admin
